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September/October 2009 illinois Volume 40, Number 5 September/October 2009 PR PARKS AND RECREATION The magazine of the Illinois Association of Park Districts and the Illinois Park and Recreation Association arts in the park PLUS: IAPD/IPRA Annual Soaring to New Heights Conference Registration and Preview Inside! IN THIS ISSUE 12 17 50 FEATURES SPECIAL FOCUS DEPARTMENTS 17 IAPD/IPRA Soaring to New 12 Art Belongs in Parks 4 From the Editor Heights Conference 2010 by Carol Haggas and Erika Young Pre-Conference Brochure and 6 Get on Board Registration And Now, a Word About Our Sponsors 50 The 2010 Illinois Parks & Recreation Magazine Editorial 8 Eye on the Profession Calendar Art Imitates Parks (or Vise Versa) 10 Statehouse Insider The IAPD Legislative Platform Meets with Success 52 People and Places On the Cover: Pre-Conference Brochure ‘The Potato Man’ by Niagara Falls, New York artist Susan Geissler is part of the St. Charles Park District’s “Sculpture and Registration Inside in the Park” event running through mid-October. ILLINOIS PARKS AND RECREATION illinois FROM THE EDITOR PR PARKS AND RECREATION On the impetus for and the art of running OFFICES IPRA Representatives LOIS NICKSON JOHN MCGOVERN This summer, Runner’s 217.523.4554 Macomb Park District Recreation Accessibility Consultants World magazine asked its LAURA BARRON, CPRP JOSEPH PETRY MIKE TOOHEY, CPRP readers and Tweet followers FAX Oakbrook Terrace Park District 217.523.4273 Champaign Park District Lisle Park District what makes them run. For a ARNIE BIONDO Carol Stream Park District D. DEWEY PIEROTTI JR. LORIKAY PADEN, CPRP long time, I didn’t have a E-MAIL Forest Preserve of DuPage County University of Illinois [email protected] good answer, which is CHERYL CRISMAN, CPRP Plainfield Park District CHRIS RILEY MIKE STERBA, CPRP strange because I only began WORLD WIDE WEB Decatur Park District Coloma Township Park District running in July 2008, so www.ILparks.org MIKE DOTY, CPRP www.ILipra.org Mt. Carroll FRANK SCARPELLI MARY JEANNE HUTCHINGSON, CPRP you’d think I’d know what Dundee Township Park District O’Fallon Parks and Recreation got me started. MAIL ELSA FISCHER, CPRP 211 East Monroe Street Northbrook Park District IAPD HEADQUARTERS CRAIG CULP, CPRP I remember that my motivation did have something to Springfield, Illinois 62701-1186 211 East Monroe Street NSSRA ALLISON SOHR with ambition. I wanted to get into some races and see Springfield, IL 62701-1186 GAIL ITO, CPRP Managing Editor Batavia Park District 217.523.4554 how I stacked up. But it also had a lot to do with getting TED FLICKINGER, Chicago State University www.ILparks.org President and Chief ILLINOIS ASSOCIATION OF out of the gym and into the world. There are municipal and Executive Officer, IAPD DEE KAISER park district trails aplenty. Why not be there? And so I have PARK DISTRICTS TED FLICKINGER, Ph.D., CPRP, CAE University of Illinois Editor President and Chief Executive Officer been, sometimes on my lunch breaks, but mostly in the RODD WHELPLEY, COLETTE KUBIESA DEBBIE KOPAS, CPRP pre-dawn hours, when I can get away without having to Publications Director, IAPD Chairman CINDY DEITERS Homewood-Flossmoor Park District Elmhurst Park District Marketing Director feel guilty about missing time with my family and my Graphic Design STEVE NEILL, CPRP Arlington Heights Park District workmates. GOSS GRAPHIC DESIGN GEORGE LONGMEYER BOBBIE JO HILL 217.423.4739 Chairman-elect Public Relations Director I’ve seen a lot of nature in these public spaces. If www.gossgrfx.com Schaumburg Park District RICK SCHRAM, CPRP Winnetka Park District rabbits of Sagamon County were sentient beings, I’d swear ALAN HOWARD Advertising Sales MIKE KROST Finance Director LISA SHEPPARD, CPRP they had taught one another to dart onto the path at Representative Immediate Past Chairman SHERRI KHILE Gurnee Park District intervals specifically calculated to make a runner stumble. BETH SALTZ Chillicothe Park District Arlington Publishers Representatives Executive Secretary ALLISON SOHR, CPRP I’ve run (for a second or two) beside deer and foxes, been P.O. Box 1555 DON ANDERSEN Batavia Park District Arlington Heights, Illinois 60006 Vice Chairman PETER M. MURPHY, CAE hissed at by a possum, swooped down upon by bats and, 847.509.9810 Oak Lawn Park District General Counsel once, nipped by duck (presumably because I did not have FAX: 847.509.9816 IPRA HEADQUARTERS [email protected] WALLY FRASIER SHANNON SARTAIN 1815 S. Meyers Rd., Suite 400 the requisite slice of bread to cross his causeway.) Nothing Vice Chairman Legal Secretary Oakbrook Terrrace, IL 60181 Mundelein Park and Recreation District like that ever happens on the treadmill. JOINT EDITORIAL SUE TRIPHAHN, CMP 630.376.1911 But running brings its share of disappointment, too. I COMMITTEE LINDA JOHNSON Educational Services Director www.ILipra.org was looking forward to running beneath the Perseid meteor Vice Chairman IAPD Representatives Crete Park District RODD WHELPLEY MIKE SELEP, CPRP shower on August 12, but bad quads kept me inside that Publications Director Interim CEO and th WILLIS “BILL” LOGAN Professional Services Director morning and also the morning of the 13 . So, out I went at MARY ANN CHAMBERS Treasurer ILLINOIS PARK AND 4:30 on the 14th, to try to eek a slow, careful run out of Northbook Park District Springfield Park District RECREATION ASSOCIATION BARRY FRANKS Finance Director some tender muscles. I had my eye out for the bat that ANN AUSTIN MARY ANN CHAMBERS lives in one of the trees that grows between the path and Rock Island Park and Northbrook Park District RON SALSKI, CPRP DINA KARTCH Recreation Department Chairman Education and Conference Director the golf course and I was wondering, What am I doing CAROLYN EDLEY Lake Bluff Park District WALLY FRASIER East Saint Louis Park District HEATHER WEISHAAR here? And there it was in the northern sky, one bright Mundelein Park and CARRIE HAUPERT, CPRP Communications and Projects Director streak, lasting only a second. Recreation District DAVID HANSEN Chairman-elect Itasca Park District Bloomingdale Park District It’s incredibly prideful, I know, but at that moment I felt ROBERT GELWICKS that that meteor, that stray bit of stardust existed just for Downers Grove Park District JERRI-LYNN KLEINA TRACEY M. CRAWFORD, CTRS, CPRP Alsip Park District Immediate Past Chairman me. It was, like me, struggling and definitely late for the MIKE KROST Fox Valley SRA party. But it didn’t care. It ran along its course anyway. Chillicothe Park District DIANE MAIN Westmont Park District CAROLYN NAGLE, CTRS, CPRP To that point, my experiences running out in nature Fox Valley SRA were those of a spectator, or, sometimes, an intruder on the NATHANIEL “NATE” MARTIN Rockford Park District RON OESTREICH, CPRP natural world. But my instant kinship with that falling star Bolingbrook Park District made me feel that I was not just in nature, I was of nature. I cannot draw or paint or dance, as so many people do in our parks (see page 12). That’s why, I suppose, I find Illinois Parks and Recreation and express my place in the universe by running through (ISSN 0019-2155) is published bimonthly at 211 E. Monroe Street, Springfield, Illinois, by the Illinois Association of Park Districts and the Illinois Park and Recreation Association. Annual subscription rates: $6 for IAPD/IPRA members; $25 for non-members; $30 foreign; $20 educational the parks. Your public agencies provide the safe places institutions. Single copies: $2 members; $5 nonmembers. Periodicals postage paid at Springfield, Illinois and additional post offices. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Illinois Parks & Recreation, 211 E. Monroe Street, Springfield, IL 62701-1186. Opinions expressed in where that can happen. What a wonderful thing. this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily express the official views of the IAPD/IPRA. Likewise, the publication of any advertisement is not to be construed as an endorsement of the product or services offered. Members of the IAPD and the IPRA and other interested persons are encouraged to submit articles and illustrative photos for possible publication in the magazine. Send for manuscript guidelines and deadline dates: Editor, Illinois Parks & Recreation, 211 E. Monroe Street, Springfield, IL 62701-1186, 217.523.4554, [email protected], www.ILparks.org. By submitting articles for publication, authors are assigning the copyright to the Illinois Association of — RODD WHELPLEY Park Districts. Editor Copyright© by the Illinois Association of Park Districts and the Illinois Park and Recreation Association. All rights reserved. Reprints of articles in whole or in part without prior written permission are prohibited. 4 Illinois Parks & Recreation www.IPRAonline.com www.ILparks.org September/October 2009 5 GET ON BOARD And Now, a Word Dr. Ted Flickinger IAPD President and Chief About Our Sponsors Executive Officer They become associate members, advertise in this magazine and in throughout Illinois. Scott used his skills as a professional engineer and the annual buyers’ guide, take booths at the Soaring to New Heights volunteered several days to come to the IAPD headquarters and make Conference, or underwrite educational seminars and holes at golf necessary updates to the building’s heating and cooling systems. Scott outings. They are the businesses that offer goods and services to the park is involved in the community in other ways as well, serving as chair of and recreation industry. So, naturally, it’s part of their marketing strategy the Northwest Suburban Chicago Sports Council, among many other to capitalize on opportunities to meet with IAPD members. But it’s a activities. He is past a chairman of the IAPD Board of Trustees. mistake to view sponsors’ presence at – and support of – association Along with nearly all the employees at W-T Engineering, Scott has g volunteered to help the park district and its friends organization by functions the way you regard the incessant commercials that interrupt your favorite TV show or ball game.
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